Total Energy Consumption and Strategies How to Reduce
Peter Dockx, Van Looy Group
Many programs and working groups are already working on reducing the energy demand of a laboratory by reducing the number of air changes, decoupling cooling from ventilation, and implementing energy recovery systems. But even with these efforts there still remains some demand for energy.
The session will show how a "virtual laboratory" model can help in determining the laboratory energy profile. The session will show the importance of an hour-by- hour year energy profile and good benchmarking values if we go for green or renewable energy.
The session will also show the implementation of heat pumps for heating and cooling energy in laboratories, the simultaneous use of heat and cooling energy from heat pumps, and the storage of energy waste in phase change material (PCM) thermal storage tanks, as well as technology implemented in European laboratory projects.
Biography:
As a managing consultant, Peter Dockx is responsible for the development of laboratory engineering within Van Looy Group. Mr. Dockx is the inventor of several laboratory concepts for the pharmaceutical industry, research facilities, quality control laboratories, medical laboratories, and vivaria. To underline the ambitions of Van Looy Group, Mr. Dockx also acts as chairman of the "laboratory energy" working group for the European Organization for Sustainable Laboratories (EGNATON).